I don't think it's good to be sentimental,so I try not to be.- Chrissie Hynde

It's not good to make sentimental journeys.You see the differences instead of the sameness.- Mary Astor

The job of the poet is to render the world -to see it and report it without loss,without perversion.No poet ever talks about feelings.Only sentimental people do.- Mark Van Doren

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view oflife and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.- Flannery O'Connor

It's an indication of how cynical our society has becomethat any kind of love story with a sad theme is automaticallyridiculed as sentimental junk.- Winona Ryder

The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes upfor all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.- Thomas Huxley

Even my aunt Joan, hopelessly sentimental about every member of our family,admitted that I was hideous.- Sister Parish

Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.- Karl Kraus

I always say that I don't want to be sentimental,that the photographs shouldn't be sentimental,and yet, I am conscious of my sentimentality.- Robert Frank

Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born,little institutional lies from the print of newspapers,the shock waves of television, and the sentimentalcheats of the movie screen.- Norman Mailer

The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following:Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way toavoid hitting a rabbit on the road.Being sentimental is when the same driver,when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian.- Frank Herbert

I like kind of varied songs, not just the same song all the time.And I thought things like "Too Sentimental" is a different thing for us,but it works and we love the way they all came out.There's definitely varied songs on there.- Graham Russell

I came to feel very, very sentimental about those sets,which is ludicrous, because they represent everythingwhich is transitory and insubstantial.It's absurd that one should feel sentimental about timber and canvas.- Patrick Stewart

Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go seeall the Broadway shows and feel that they were sentimental,that they were pandering to the audience and tryingto manipulate the audience.I had no use for practically any of the shows that were hits.- Richard Foreman

Love is the ultimate meaning of everything around us.Love is not a mere sentiment.Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.- Rabindranath Tagore

Love is not a mere sentiment.Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.- Rabindranath Tagore

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhoodbetween sincere men of all denominations.- Helen Keller

Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment.It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.- Rabindranath Tagore

What's the most important thing in the world? It's love,and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.- Eddie Albert

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity oflabor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.- Grover Cleveland

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.- Voltaire

The great model of the affection of love in human beingsis the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.- William Godwin

He who molds the public sentiment...makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.- Abraham Lincoln

For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion;while,for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business.- Wilfrid Laurier

All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful pointshould first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike,friendship, anger or pity.- Sallust

With public sentiment, nothing can fail.Without it, nothing can succeed.- Abraham Lincoln

Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution,there is a popular sentiment of support for the oldone that lives on in reality in some quarters.- Kenzaburo Oe

As with the Princess Di crash, which sent the mediaon the most insane feeding frenzy.From the moment of the crash, the pornography of sentiment never let up.- Barbara Kruger

It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.- Gilbert K. Chesterton

I think people in Hollywood are afraid of sentimentbecause they think audiences will reject it.- Leonard Maltin

To make the public sentiment, on the side of all thatis just and true and noble,is the highest use of life.- Lucy Stone

It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of Godit shall be my dying sentiment,independence now and independence forever.- Daniel Webster

When Tim Allen made The Santa Clause,I thought that was a delightful film.It took a modern sensibility but layered onto it a kind of sentiment.- Leonard Maltin

According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive,a sentiment and even an intoxication.- Irving Babbitt

Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.- Norman Mailer

In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment,and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact.- Ernest Renan

The important part of the present development is theanti-capitalist sentiment that is permeating our people.- Gregor Strasser

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.- W. Somerset Maugham

For me sport was a religion...with religious sentiment.- Pierre de Coubertin

Public sentiment is everything.With public sentiment, nothing can fail.Without it, nothing can succeed.- Abraham Lincoln

If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express,we feel a sense of shame.- Ugo Betti

It's a very romantic sentiment, but to think that youwould die if you didn't write,well, I would definitely choose to not write and live.- Sarah McLachlan

Though times have changed, it's a nice surprise tosee that youthful feeling of anti-war sentiment returningonce more to the cobbled main streets of Europe.- Cat Stevens

Never were two people more opposite in sentiment than my companions.- William Hamilton Maxwell

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty,and just reasoning to delicate sentiment.In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.- David Hume

But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment;the one being essentially restricted,like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.- Honore de Balzac

Humans love truth and justice, and rejoice in ceremoniesthat honor those qualities.For that sentiment we should indeed thank God.- Alfred Day Hershey

Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment,and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.- George Byron

Poetry does not consist of words alone;there must be sentiment and fancy,combination and arrangement.- Samuel Prout

Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature,every generous, every liberal Sentiment,if not extinguished, is enfeebled in our Minds.- George Mason

Obviously the first sentiment is disappointment thatwe didn't get the car home and more disappointmentthat at the time that it stopped the car was in the lead.- John Surtees

Party action should follow, not precede the creationof a dominant popular sentiment.- Judith Ellen Foster

Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.- Graham Greene

Let us beware of common folk, of common sense,of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.- Charles Baudelaire

Actually, my correspondent's language is better than mine.He can put his sentiment into words.- Alfred Day Hershey

Well it seems to me, that all real communities growout of a shared confrontation with survival.Communities are not produced by sentiment or mere goodwill.They grow out of a shared struggle.Our situation in the desert is an incubator for community.- Larry Harvey

From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamentalprinciple of my religion:I know no other religion;I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion;religion,as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.- John Henry Newman

I know no subject more elevating, more amazing,more ready to the poetical enthusiasm,the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentimentthan the works of nature.Where can we meet such variety, such beauty,such magnificence?- James Thomson